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I’ve read all the Harry Potter books and I used to be into the movies, but I have to admit that the last film was so damn boring that I walked out halfway. (I left during a party scene which was maybe an hour in, I’m not sure.) It’s like they’re just phoning it in with these Harry Potter movies lately. The last one, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was the sixth in the series and came out a full eight years after the first. The movies have generally matured with their fanbase and are more adult now, but a lot of us have lost interest in Harry Potter and they’re not doing much to keep it interesting. It’s always been solid, but you can kind of tell that they’re thinning out the material to squeeze as much money out of the franchise as possible.
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is a rare leading man who is both comfortable in the nude and pretty matter-of-fact about it. The kid looks good, and he’s not full of himself or too shy to be seen. He was nude on stage in Equus last year and handled it all very well.
Director David Yates, who is responsible for the super-boring last film and it’s predecessor, the more-decent Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, recently made an announcement that Radcliffe would appear “nude” in the upcoming film Harry Potter and the Deathly Gallows. In case you didn’t get the point, he said that Radcliffe would be undressed in two different scenes, but that “we’re still thinking about how we present it“:
Director David Yates says the upcoming film “Harry Potter and the Deathly Gallows” will feature a “very sexy” scene in which the boy magician appears nude alongside co-star Emma Watson, according to the Telegraph. The scene will be imagined by Rupert Grint’s character.
“We’ll create something that feels very sexy and very intriguing to bring about a reaction in Rupert,” Yates said. “Dan has appeared nude in the past. There are a couple of scenes in the new film in which he will undress, but we’re still thinking about how we present it.”
Yates said Radcliffe will also appear in the buff later in the film. “There is another scene in King’s Cross station, where Harry almost dies and sees Dumbledore,” Yates said. “In that scene, he will also be naked.”
[From Parade]
Of course this announcement was just coincidentally made right after the blockbuster success of another teen-oriented fantasy franchise (one that’s much less cerebral) in which the male leads whip off their shirts in just about every other scene. The shirtless scenes were so gratuitous in that film it was laughable. I doubt we’ll see Harry Potter’s butt and there most certainly won’t be full frontal, but there will be enough of Radcliffe naked to generate buzz about the final two Harry Potter films. The final Harry Potter book by JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be divided into two films, with Part 1 out in November, 2010 and Part 2 out in July 2011. Some of the teens who were watching this series when it first came out are now young mothers. Maybe Harry Potter will get some new fans for his big reveal.
Daniel Radcliffe is shown at a premiere in New York on July 19, 2009, and at the at the curtain call for ‘Equus’ on 9/25/09. Credit: WENN
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It is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, not Gallows.
I for one really hope they do justice to the books for the last two, and screw the critics.
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Daniel Radcliffe is creepy looking. He looks like walking death.
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he used to be a cute kid- now look at him!nevertheless, I’ve enjoy last few Harry Potter movies and Daniel’s acting is getting better with each one of them.
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I would rather want a naked Ron *grrr*
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Can’t we get Draco naked? That would be so much better!
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I don’t understand how they’re going to split this book into two films. Not all that much happened, really. I mean, what, are they going to read letters aloud to the screen for half an hour?
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i want to read the books again. The movies always fall so short… but never fail to remind me how much i love the books and to pick them up again.
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My vote is for the entire first part of Deathly Hallows to be of Prof. Severus Snape entirely naked. That is All.
God, I love me some Alan Rickman! Ladies, who’s with me??!!
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Dear Daniel:
Rule #12: Never wear a suit that’s brighter than your teeth.
Rule #13: Get thee some Crest Whitestrips.
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@ LolaBella – Amen! His voice alone earns him a spot on my Freebie Five!
I’ve seen all of the movies and am listening to all the books on my iTouch (at the Half-Blood Prince now). Not as big a fan of the books.
Listening to them makes me almost hate the characters. Half the time Hermione seems like a prissy, bitchy know-it-all with few redeeming qualities and Harry is a moody, sulky prat. In ‘real life’ Ron and Hermione would likely tell Harry to stuff his attitude and ditch him.
And the way she writes on and on – the books could have been a lot tighter (and the movies have done just that in a lot of cases). Personal taste I guess.
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What?! I thought ALL movies except the second were great. The third, prisoner of Azkiban was my favorite. The sixth one was very good.
As for Daniel being nude? Is that really necessary? Oh well.
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@Alex, ITA, he has one of the most amazing voices. Not quite Stephen Fry, but he’s up there with Jeremy Irons.
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@Alexa and Emily:
ITA Re: Alan’s voice…who the hell knew that you could be turned on hearing a grown man talk about ‘bewitching the mind and ensnaring the senses’ and accusing someone of stealing potions stores to make Polyjuice Potion??
I mean…I give you ‘page 394′
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlIKLLkvulY
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Naked is better than this suit or the look on his face that makes him the spitting image of Hedwig the owl.
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Could I have Tim Curry and Alan Rickman in a movie please????
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He looks like Nicole Kidman at the end of Moulin Rouge when she’s all consumptive.
He’s all shades of creepy white and rose. Rachel Weisz (other post) looks positively radiant with life compared to poor Daniel here.
Uh, glad he’s comfy being naked? Better than that dense hockey puck Levi.
I still have the last two Harry Potters to get to. It sucks now that I know how they end.
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LOL. It appears the Twilight franchise is getting to Harry Potter. Suddenly there is someone shirtless in Potter. Hahahahahahaha. Ew. Seriously, Harry Potter is better than Twilight, they don’t need to follow and compete. I mean, no one in Potter is anywhere close to looking as good as Robert Pattinson but the stories are better than Twilight and that should be enough. No need to show us short, scrawny bodies for no reason. No one is asking for this.
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??? Why? These movies are supposed to be for kids, aren’t they? This is dumb – not many parents are going to take their kids to see full or partial nudity – a lot of money lost on it already and the last few haven’t been that great anyway.
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That kid got very ugly in a very British way.
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@LolaBella
Someone that talks my language! I don’t ask that much, I just ask to him appear more in the movie (Will he appear at both or just at the second part?)
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The first movie—H.P. and the Sorcerer’s Stone—was funny, magical, intelligent, and the casting was superb.
None of the sequels can hold a candle to it.
Now, the obligatory Hollywood nudity.
So tittilating. So impressive.
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@Rossonera: I am torn that they even have to split this into 2 parts, but to do the book justice and to satisfy the legion of us HP fans I understand that they have to do it. A lot happens and it is just too much for one movie.
That said, Snape HAS to appear in both parts! Part 1 due to the pivotal scenes at the very beginning of the book and Part 2 because of the tragic denouement – because it is his finest moment!
Team Snape!! *Prepares to re-read Deathly Hallows*
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I didn’t start enjoying the movies until the third. The first two had horrible CGI, the acting was bad, the movie was only slightly better than Twilight.
They have gotten a LOT better…the sixth one was wonderful except anti-climatic. I expected to see a big fight scene but nothing.
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Hairy Potter…….LOL
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I’d like to coach Team Snape, please.
As for the nudity, it’s in the book, at least in the King’s Cross ‘resurrection’ scene. So that’s okay.
The horcrux thing, on the other hand, is pure Twihard bait. Ugh.
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I’m re-reading Deathy Hollows right now & I can totally see how they could fit nudity in the 1st senario
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Eh? I don’t have a DH book handy, where does it say Harry gets naked? Is he totally naked? Does this mean DH will be R-rated coz of nudity? I don’t think parents want to take their kids to a movie where there’s a naked Harry Potter even if it is in the book?
Frankly, give me Lucius Malfoy naked.
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@eternalcanadian:
It’s when Ron comes back to Harry and Hermione and saves Harry from drowning. When they try to destroy the horcrux (Tom Riddle’s locket) it taunts Ron by talking about/showing him his deepest fears one of them being that Harry and Hermione were happier without him. The horcrux generated images of Harry and Hermione kiss and embrace each other. Reading that I didn’t picture them naked, but I guess it totally makes sense as seeing them like that would incense Ron and prevent him from destroying the horcrux.
ITA Re: A naked Lucius Malfoy…yum.
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@ Ash – I agree about the nudity. I saw this story a few days ago and was very upset that they would add gratuitous nudity to HP.
However, I was very disappointed with HBP (the movie). Which is sad because after DH, HBP was my favorite book. I love the romance. They just left way too much out of the movie. My favorite movie thus far is OotP.
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@LolaBella: So it is “implied” nudity, not outright nudity like “Harry and Hermione were laying naked on the bed and kissing…”?
@Rae: I was disappointed with HBP too! The death of Dumbledore and the bathroom scene between Harry and Draco were glossed over. I wonder how they will do the Fiendfyre scene and the rescue of Draco by Harry in DH. Probably skim it over. I don’t understand why they need two movies for DH. It isn’t even the biggest book out of them all (Order of the Phoenix was).
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@eternalcanadian: Definitely implied nudity; when I read that part in the book,it never occurred to me to think that they were naked.
Outright nudity like ‘Harry and Hermione were laying naked on the bed and kissing…’ would have totally caused all of the Ron/Hermione shippers to spontaneously combust and we know JKR would never let that happen! LOL!
There is a lot of hurry up and wait in the middle of the book, so I figure that’s the best place to split it.
I am looking forward to the scenes with Luna Lovegood’s father.
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He really needs to manscape…
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I wouldn’t mind seeing Lucius Malfoy naked for the whole movie!! He’s the best looking thing in the movies,& one of the few who can actually act w/out sounding like he’s reading!! The movies all suck! The 6th was the worst,it jumped from one thing to another so much I had to explain it to my husband who hadn’t read the books.As for Harry being naked I can kinda see the one in Ron’s imagination b/c he sees Harry & Hermione getting cozy. The part where he is reborn makes sense that he’d be naked also but they don’t need to show anything in either scene.Harry Potter is much better than Twilight, I would not want a teen girl reading that shit that is Twilight. Too much obsession, clingy,pathetic, begging “Oh don’t leave me I can’t live w/out you!”. It’s a bunch of crap!!
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Aww, he’s cute, but not in a sexual kind of way . . . Unfortunately for me, I think I shall always see him as a kid – which, he still seems to be, more or less.
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